Improvement in shovels



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alma gaat WtnIAM- n. SMITH, or JACKSON, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters `Patent No. 107,827, dated September 27, 1870.`

I IMPROVEMENT kIN SHOi/ELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SMITH, ot Jackson, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have-inventedA certain new and useful Improvements ill` Shovels; and do hereby declare that the following is` a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a i part of this specification,A

Thenatnre of :my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of ashovel as willbe hereinafter fully set forth. y ,i

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which 'my invention appertains to make and `use the same, IA

will now proceed to describe its construction and opi eration, referring toI the annexed drawing, in which-v Figure 1 is a perspective View ot' the shovel 5. 1'igure 2 is an enlarged longitudinal vertical section of `the shovel-blade and lower portion Yof the shank; and

'Figure 3 is an ,enlarged perspective view of the i shovel-blade.

A represents the shank, constructed in the-peculiar curved form shown in fig. 1,; with an edge, a, running along'the center of the front At the upper end ofthe shank Aisformed asocket, d, for the insertion of the handle B, and the lower end is flattened, as shown, and split horizontally.

In this'splt or slot is inserted the blade G, and secured by a screw, e, which causes the tips of the shank to close tightly on the upper and lower sides `of the rlhe herein-described construction of the shank A,

edges a b, and socket d, with the blade O, having the shouldersi i where it is inserted in the groove in the flattened end of the shank, and secured together by the rivet e, 'all as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of April, 1870. i Witnesses:. WILLIAM H. SMITH.

C. L. Evnn'r,

side, and another edge,

Resum: OUSTARD. Jr. Y 

